If Walt has a boy with her then their son will have a claim on the throne.įinally back home in Northampton Castle, Walt spends his days arranging marriages for his court and his friends. She’s a decent woman and, crucially, can pass her claim on the crown of England onto her children. Gunhild, one of the dead King Harold’s daughters, is 27 and still unwed. While I am saddened on his behalf, I move quickly to my backup plan. The war against the Holy Roman Empire is almost lost, the rebellion in England moves ever closer to Northampton and now Walt is hit with devastating news. What’s worse, both of his daughters have contracted the disease.
Sigrid, Princess of Denmark and Walt’s wife for 16 years, has died of smallpox. Then, as the cold begins to set in as September 1082 rolls around, even worse news reaches Walt. York, Derby, Warwick, Lincoln, Oxford and Somerset all rise against King Robert, whose armies are stuck in the Swiss Alps. Then in 1081, lit by the spark of heavier crown intervention, the country rises in revolt. Fed up with how Robert is ruining the once glorious nation of England, Walt joins a faction trying to crown Eadwin, Duke of Warwick, as king. It’s surely only a matter of time until rebellion strikes. His people hate him and his lords hate him. Robert is 26, four years Walt’s junior, but is a man who is fat, lazy and awful at diplomacy. Patience is the name of the game here for Walt and I. What’s more he’s created the Duchy of Norfolk, a title that by de jure rights belongs to Walt, and given it to himself. The King has been fighting a war against the Holy Roman Empire for a year, and leaves Walt to command a small army encamped between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea. The newly-crowned King Robert of England really has it in for my poor Earl of Northampton, Waltheof. I have no idea if it’s going to work, or whether the house of Waltheof of Northampton will sink into obscurity. In this series I’m attempting to take the house of Northumbria, which rules in Northampton, England, from small counts to the kings of England. Articles // 1st Aug 2015 - 6 years ago // By Alex Hamilton From Count to King in Crusader Kings 2 - Part 2
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